Oslo (Norway), April 15, 2012 (SPS) - Some twenty people including Norwegian and Saharawi students staged Saturday morning in front of the French embassy in Oslo to demand that France allowing the inclusion of human rights monitoring in Western Sahara within MINURSO mandates.
The participants indicated that Norway, UK and several other states have expressed that the mandate of the UN mission sohould be extended to include human rights observation, but France - Morocco's closest ally - objects to such human rights monitoring in the territory that Morocco is illegally occupying.
"France should stop sabotaging human rights in Western Sahara. It is hypocritical that they demand human rights obervers in some countries, while they veto any attempts in the occupied terriitories of Western Sahara", said Senia Abderahman, a Saharawi living in Oslo, in a speech to those attending.
The mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) will be reviewed in the UN Security Council end of current April .
It should be recalled that this demonstration is a part of international action launched by the Saharawi Students Union, where many demonstrations took place Saturday in 14 countries in front of the French embassies.